Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara 
Revisiting the Classics: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Thursday, March 7, 2024 / 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM (PST)
- Pollock Theater
- Screening Format: Sony 4K Digital Projection (104 Minutes)
- With Steve Starkey (associate producer), Peter S. Seaman (screenwriter)
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner
Set in an alternate postwar Hollywood where humans and cartoon characters mix uneasily, the film follows grizzled gumshoe Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), whose brother Teddy was murdered by an unknown ‘toon years earlier. Much to his chagrin, Eddie is drawn back into the topsy world of the ‘toons when animation studio magnate R.K. Maroon hires him to run a P.I. job on the bombshell wife of one of his biggest stars, Roger Rabbit. But as Eddie tugs at the threads of this seemingly simple investigation, he and Roger are drawn into a spiraling conspiracy against the ‘toons of Toontown, masterminded by the villainous Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd). Blending hard-boiled LA noir storytelling with unforgettable live-action performances and dazzling animation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an iconic and gloriously offbeat classic.
In this event, associate producer Steve Starkey and screenwriter Peter S. Seaman joined Carsey-Wolf Center Assistant Director Tyler Morgenstern for a post-screening discussion of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Please note: All available seats for this event have been reserved. However, we will be running a first-come, first-served standby line on the evening of the screening, in addition to admitting our ticketed patrons. In order to best serve all guests, we kindly ask that all ticketed patrons be seated in the Pollock Theater no later than 6:55 PM. If you are not scanned in and seated in the theater by 6:55 PM, your seat may be released to a standby patron. Please plan to arrive on campus early to give yourself time to find parking and walk to the theater. If you have made a reservation for this event, but anticipate being unable to attend, please contact us at info@carseywolf.ucsb.edu to request a cancellation.
Biographies
Associate Producer Steve Starkey
Screenwriter Peter S. Seaman
Moderator Tyler Morgenstern
Tyler Morgenstern is Assistant Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center and an alumnus of the UCSB Film and Media Studies PhD program. As a scholar, his research and teaching focused on the media and technological cultures of empire and settler colonialism. He completed his dissertation, Colonial Recursion and Decolonial Maneuver in the Cybernetic Diaspora in 2021, and has published in journals including International Journal of Communication, Media+Environment, and Synoptique. With Krista Lynes and Ian Alan Paul, he is also co-editor of Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis (Transcript Verlag, 2020).
This event is sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center.
Revisiting the Classics
What happens when a film becomes a “classic”? The Carsey-Wolf Center’s 2023-24 feature series Revisiting the Classics engages creatively and critically with our filmic past, approaching it with fresh eyes and novel interpretive lenses. Not simply a celebration of the “great works,” Revisiting the Classics will consider how classic texts have shaped the work of contemporary filmmakers, how complicated questions of politics and aesthetics emerge through practices of adaptation and interpretation, and how the changing landscape of film distribution, archiving, preservation, and critique affects the formation of canon and the making of new “classics.”